Hi there,
Thanks for looking at our project.
We are an auto classifieds website. Our vehicle database consists of about 4,000 listings. This is a very simple, tab-delineated text flatfile database (not SQL).
Our site includes a login area where a dealership can view their inventory and add new listings, as well as edit and delete current ones. Photos are uploaded through a conventional browser “upload” field on a form.
What we need is this:
A script which can be called from within this dealer login area, which will allow the dealership to upload a folder of photos all at once.
Once the photos are uploaded, the script should load a new page. The page should look something like this:
http://www.autopages.com/bulk_upload_example.jpg
At the top, this page should have a drop-down menu or other way of selecting a vehicle in the dealer’s inventory.
At the bottom, there should be two “windows”. Window A should contain a thumbnail view of current photos for the vehicle selected. Window B should contain a thumbnail view of all the photos that were batch uploaded in step 1.
Here’s the special part: The user should be able to grab any photo, drag and drop it from the batch window to the vehicle window. In this way, the photos can be added to that listing. There should also be a small “X” on each photo to delete it, and it should be possible to arrange the photos on the listing by dragging them.
When the user is finished adding photos for that vehicle and clicks “save changes”, the script should send a brief command to Imagemagick (already in place) to process the photos, and then go back to the inventory list.
I am certain that scripts which can do this already exist, as I’ve seen them on other sites. The trick may be to get it to work with our tab-delineated text flatfile database.
Thanks, and please let me know if you have any questions.